When iTunes won't quit

I was having a problem where iTunes would not quit and stay quit. Even Force quit would only work for a second or two, then iTunes would restart. I tried several suggestions here, but none of them worked. Instead when I googled "iTunes won't quit" I found an answer on the blog The Mac Track (http://themactrack.com/2008/05/27/tip-if-itunes-wont-quit)
He suggested opening the activity monitor then quitting the process genredetection.
When I went to the activity monitor, I saw I had two genredetection processes operating. I stopped both of them. iTunes went back to normal.
The blogger's source of the process was iWow. I don't have that, and don't know which application generated the process on my computer. I do now know how to fix the results.
I thought I would pass this on for others.

Excellent tip, thank you! I quit all the helper processes "orbiting" iTunes, but when all the usual suspects were already quit and I was out of ideas, going on a genredetection massacre did the trick!

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